1625-29 P Flashcards
(20 cards)
how did charles initially damage his relationship with parliament?
-when charles initially married henrietta maria (a catholic queen) he postponed his first parliament because he throught that they would disapprove of her
-the mantua purchase of which charles spent roughly 30,000 pounds on works of italian art- this both aligned himself with catholocism and wasted money
how did parliament show its distrust to charles?
-they did not grant the king lifetime access to tonnage and poundage
-all they could offer was two subsidies
- this was worth £140,000
what happened in cadiz??
-charles still decided to go ahead with the attack on spain and he even had to use the queens dowry of £120,000 to help this but this was still insufficient as it had been twenty years since a fleet of that size had been required
-the fleet set sail in october 1625 and landed on the soil but as the trip was short on water, the soldiers guzzled wine and the mission was abandoned due to their sickness
what happened after cadiz?
-buckingham received a lot of the blame but charles pushed foreward and made commitments to pay the danish king 30000 per month for their army as they were facing catholic attacks
what was charles first parliament doing during this time?
-when C1 was crowned he immediately called parliament in march to ask for money however this was not met well with causing charles to adjourn parliament
- after three weeks he called them again and they weren’t pleased and turned their attention to buckingham and so charles dissolved parliament
what was the response to cadiz from parliament?
-charles continued to push for war preparations and secured a loan for the crown jewels (not his personal property) and called for parliament again in february 1626
-charles made sure to remove all of the most prominent ops such as thomas wentworth and sir edward coke
-this just gave parliament an opportunity to crisisize Buckingham. “we must of nessesity lay the fault upon somebody… but on nobody but the lord admiral”
-charles then dissolved parliament again putting his friend and potential lover above parliament
the expedition to rhé?
-after the peace made between france and spain, buckingham set out to remove the cardinal who made this peace
-he planned a three pronged attack and set out in june 1627
-this failed due to his inexperience in military affairs and inadiquet backing from england for example the ladders sent for scaling the citadel were too short
what was the impact of rhe?
-this made parliament hesitant to give funds to the king as they would just be spent ineffectively and nothing would be acheiged
-charles grew to dislike
his parliament and started to look for money in other ways
what were forced loans?
-taken out between the 2nd and 3rd parliaments
-richer subjects were given a large loan to give to the crown
-this resulted in £260,000 bei by raised by the end of 1627
-this came at a political cost
what was the five knights case?
after 5 knights fought back for habeas corpus the king said that they were imprisoned because the king had specially commanded it which brought up issues
-this showed charles didn’t understand his actions
what an when was the loan on london?
-times got desperate again for the king and in 1627 he raised a loan on the city of london worth 350000 pounds and people weren’t happy
what happened in denmark during the 30 years war
the dane’s were let down by englands promises to lend them 30000 and ewell were beaten by german forces- this causes people to dislike england and considering that they were the only protestant country in europe other than england this was not good
why was parliament called again in 1628?
both king and parliament realised that they needed to make concessions in order to maintain a good relationship
what did the petition of rights ask for?
-end to non parliamentary taxation
-imprisonment without cause
-billeting
-martial law
it is important to remember that this was not revolutionary it was just standard and charles did sign but just because he wanted the five subsides that parliament had to approve which did not help build any trust
what caused the petition of right?
buckinghams trip to la rochelle which was a miserable failure in 1628
-this also lead to john eliot and john felton assassinating buckingham
what happened as a result of buckinghams death?
c1 was very sad and distrusted parliament and the people
-people also began to realise that charles was the real cause for problems and it wasn’t his evil councillors
what was the commons remonstrance? 1628
a list of cristisizations from the house of commons speaking of religion, buckingham, foreign policy, and god. however when they started writing a second parliament was adjourned
when parliament was called again in january 1629 what happened?
-they spoke of arminianism and tonnage and poundage, charles made a number of concessions on religion through recusancy laws however this didn’t convince the commons
-dither tensions arose from the fact that charles only signed his initial on the petition of right
how did the third parliament come to an end?
-charles decided to adjourn parliament due to arising problems and this caused mps to hold the speaker down to pass three resolutions condemning those who: were popish or arminian, counselled tonnage and poundage or payed it
-they also then adjourned themselves with black rod hammering at the door
-charles then resolves to do without them in future marking the start of personal rule
what was charles foreign policy at the start of his personal rule?
the treaty of souza (29) and the treaty of madrid (30) marked peace with spain and france
